Gov. Spitzer's State of Upstate address highlights the potential for additonal incubator capacity in Binghamton, where our member Binghamton University Start-Up Suites already operates a program at the university's Innovative Technologies Complex, and several other community initiatives are under way. Watch this website for further updates as they become available.

Spotted at the Fuse 2007 conference (themed "accelerating business growth in upstate New York") were: Paul Brooks and the entire staff of the Syracuse Technology Garden (which was a major sponsor); Gina Lee-Glauser of the CASE Center incubator program; Roger Williams of the Cornell Center for Life Science Enterprise incubation program; William Wolf of Griffiss Institute incubator program; Kelly Tyler of NYSERDA's Saratoga Technology and Energy Park; Terrence Kane of Binghamton University's Start-Up Suite incubator program; Jerome Mahone of RIT's Venture Creations incubator; Jeff Lawrence, Nick Viggiani, and Peter Pritchard of CEG's Watervliet Innovation Center. If we missed any, apologies! BIA/NYS is proud to be a supporting organization of Fuse for the second year in a row.

The Start-Up Suite incubator program at Binghamton University has joined BIA/NYS, completing our roster of member incubators from the four SUNY "university center" flagship campuses, and marking our first membership from an incubator in the Southern Tier economic region.

The Binghamton Start-Up Suite for incubator-stage companies is situated in the first building of the Innovative Technologies Complex. Immediately adjacent to campus, the ITC is a cluster of former commercial buildings being redeveloped to house interdisciplinary research and university/industry partnerships. The first building of the complex, a 92,000 square foot former NYSEG building, was renovated for office, research laboratory, and incubator use. Funding came in part from the state Senate's Gen*NY*sis program.

The primary contact for the Binghamton program is Terrence Kane, associate director of the campus's office of Economic Development and Outreach. The incubator program is sponsored by the campus office of Technology Transfer and Innovation Partnerships, directed by Eugene Krentsel.

We warmly welcome Binghamton's program to membership!